This is a discussion on "Boy stands up for Old Glory" within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; awesome story...we need more kids like this. Jeffrey Sahli noticed the faded, fraying American flag outside Evergreen Middle School soon after he started eighth grade ...
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awesome story...we need more kids like this.
Boy stands up for Old Glory : Local News : The Rocky Mountain NewsJeffrey Sahli noticed the faded, fraying American flag outside Evergreen Middle School soon after he started eighth grade last year.
"I thought the flag wasn't being treated with flag etiquette. I thought I needed to do that," the 14-year-old said. "I wanted to serve my country and I thought, heck, I'll start right here."
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Thats a cool story. I hope my boy turns out to be a kid like that too.
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"Duty, Honor, God & Country"... I think that there is at least some of that in every man and woman who come here. God Bless America!
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Great story...superb patriotism...we need more kids like him!
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"Give this to, uh, Clemenza. I want reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried away. After all we're not murderers in spite of what this undertaker thinks."
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Reading about the young man makes me feel good, wish there were more of him.
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We need more people in this Country with his Values.
David
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The first rule of gunfighting should be to know when the gunfight starts - being the last one to get the news certainly won't put the odds in your favor.
This is GREAT.
Great story, great kid.
George
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If there were we wouldn't be going down the crapper so fast. Good job kid!Originally Posted by target1911
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Good on him!!!
I also must applaud his parents, They must be doing their job in raising a fine young man!!
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier
and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the
service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the
love and thanks of man and woman."
-- Thomas Paine (The American Crisis, No. 1, 19 December 1776)
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Perhaps one of the Colorado US Senators will see this story and keep this young man in mind for an appointment to West Point in the future.
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